Theoretical Investigations of Nanopatterning on the Au(III) surface

N Toto; R Ferrando; Roy Johnston; Quanmin Guo

doi:10.1016/j.susc.2007.04.103

Theoretical Investigations of Nanopatterning on the Au(III) surface

N Toto, R Ferrando, Roy Johnston, Quanmin Guo

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Motivated by recent experimental findings, we have set up a model of a stepped Au(1 1 1) surface under the effect of an intense scanning tunneling microscope (STM) electric field. Atoms diffusing across the surface are represented by means of a lattice gas, and their kinetics are simulated by a kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm. Despite the approximations inherent in our simple model, we have shown that a step meandering instability of the same type as experimentally observed can be reproduced. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4175-4179
Number of pages	5
Journal	Surface Science
Volume	601
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susc.2007.04.103
Publication status	Published - 15 Sept 2007

Keywords

surface phenomena
self-organization
KMC
kinetic instabilities
STM

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